reachest

«reachest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you reach — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you reach

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«reachest» means «you reach», a form of «reach»: To reach is to get to a place: the train reached the city. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou reachest» = «you reach».

examples

• ‘“Take that path,” said he, “that leads to the head of this grassy glade, and go up the wood till thou reachest the top. (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →
• But to-night thou must sleep in the this castle, and in the morning see that thou rise early and follow the road upwards through the valley, until thou reachest a wood. (The Lilac Fairy Book) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «reach», a verb of EWT); corpora 2 (Torah 0, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «reachest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.